"The thing that's so amazing about Verasight is our flexibility. We can do probability, non-probability, SMS, address-based sampling, traditional panels, and we own it and do it all ourselves." Members of the Verasight team share what they love about Verasight.

Verasight data was featured in a new story from @CNBC by @levynews: "Trump’s meeting with tech leaders leaves AI safety more unsettled than ever." According to Verasight’s September national survey, 63% of respondents said AI should slow down while only 5% said it should accelerate. Read the full article here: cnbc.com/2026/09/30/after-tr…

Verasight data was featured in a new story from @Newsweek by associate news editor @bySamStevenson: "Trump's $5,000 Check Promise Fails To Land With Voters, New Poll Finds." A national Verasight poll of 1,500 U.S. adults, fielded September 16 to 21, found that 33% of Americans said President Trump's pledge of $5,000 to every adult citizen if Republicans keep control of Congress makes them less likely to vote Republican, compared with 15% who said it makes them more likely. Verasight CEO Ben Leff commented on the findings: "The clearest takeaway we see from the data is that the promise doesn't appear to be an effective way to persuade voters." He also noted the limits of what the poll measures. "We need to be careful about interpreting this as 33 percent of Americans actually changing their vote because of this promise," he said. "Disliking a proposal and actually changing your vote because of it are two very different things." Read the full article here: newsweek.com/trump-5000-chec…

We have a treat for you ahead of our poll release next week @TheArgumentMag. Thanks to our data partners at @verasight_data, we've received data for "dropoff" respondants (those who started, but didn't complete the polls) for all our polls. Extra model update coming tomorrow!

Our new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight_data poll: 58% say the U.S. is worse off under Trump vs Biden, 24% say it’s better gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09…

Trump's approval rating has hit a new low of 33% in our new Strength In Numbers/ @verasight_data poll just out this AM. POTUS's disapproval is 63%, for a net of -30. Democrats lead by 10 points among likely voters on the generic ballot Read more: gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09…

How do AI-moderated interviews compare to traditional surveys? We collaborated with Outset on a rigorous experiment in which 3,160 people were randomly assigned to either a traditional survey or an AI-moderated interview. Verasight CEO Ben Leff and Outset CEO @AaronLCannon walk through what we found and how AI-moderated interviews can be used with survey research. Live Wednesday, September 30 at 12pm PT / 3pm ET. Register: streamyard.com/watch/YADxQSt…

Congratulations to Julia Wolfson and Cindy Leung on a new article in @AmJPrevMed, published with Verasight survey data. "Public perceptions of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans" examines how US adults view the guidelines released in January 2026, including whether they trust the science behind them and find them useful for decision-making. In a nationally representative, web-based survey of 1,000 US adults, 50% did not trust that the recommendations in the new guidelines were based on sound scientific evidence, while 35% did. Respondents were split on usefulness, with 41% finding the guidelines useful and 44% not. Opinions differed significantly by education, household income, and political party. Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.202…

The Verasight AOM 2026 omnibus survey report is out. Here are just a few results from the questions submitted by conference participants: * 84% of respondents have run into a coworker outside of work. * 73% of respondents say most companies benefit a lot from corporate political activity. * 72% of respondents would trust an expert with two disciplinary areas over one with a single area. * 49% of respondents think AI is destroying humanity. View the full report, findings, and methodology: reports.verasight.io/r/aom-2… Thank you to every researcher who contributed a question, including: Mina Son, Russ Browder, Amber Yoo, Marco Greco, Sujin Jeong, Kanan Asif, Lauren Howe, Bettina Maisch, Lora Louise Broady

Introducing the Verasight Data Library: a searchable index of 1,228 questions from our national surveys. The Data Library includes write-ups of survey results, exact question wording, topline estimates, field dates, and full methodology. Our AI and technology category includes 162 indexed questions across 15 featured topics, spanning adoption, attitudes, and concerns. In national surveys fielded in May and June 2026, 73% of Americans said they use AI at least once a month, 62% opposed continuing to build more data centers in the United States, 61% agreed they feel anxious about the rise of AI, and 89% supported requiring AI companies to publicly disclose the results of safety testing. Visit the Verasight Data Library: data.verasight.io/

The Verasight JSM and Quirk's 2026 omnibus survey report is out. Here are just a few results from the questions submitted by conference participants: * 54% of respondents are comfortable with a doctor making the diagnosis without using AI. * 12% of respondents don't disclose their use of AI to anyone in their field of work/study, and 15% disclose only to people they trust. * 64% of respondents said window is the superior airline seat. * 10% of respondents say the companies they interact with usually show them how their feedback led to improvements. View the full report, findings, and methodology: reports.verasight.io/r/jsm-q… Thank you to every researcher who contributed a question, including: Brittany Stalsburg, Julie Levine, @SteveLevine1, Ali High, Rashad Naouchi, Alisa Weinstein, Susan Ferrari, Urszula Paliwoda, Mark Louie Ramos, Jason Brinkley, Milo Schield, Jesse Canchola, Ryan Lafferty

Congratulations to David Doherty, @conor_m_dowling, Michael Miller, and Jeff Milyo on a new article in American Politics Research, published with Verasight survey data. "Partisanship and Voting Rule Trade-offs" examines whether partisan differences about voting rules come from genuine disagreement about the trade-off between maximizing turnout and preventing ineligible votes. Across two pre-registered survey experiments, participants were asked to make trade-offs between a pair of voting systems. One system would entirely prevent ineligible votes, randomly varying turnout rates among eligible voters; the other would yield universal turnout among eligible voters, but result in some randomly varied number of ineligible voters casting ballots. Some participants were also provided with cues signaling which party endorsed which system. The results suggest that the effects of divergent partisan cues, rather than differing priorities regarding maximizing eligible turnout and minimizing ineligible turnout, are the more likely explanation for the partisan gaps found in the observational data. Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1177/1532673X2614…

Congratulations to @Spencer_Goidel and @Polling_Station on their new book from Palgrave Macmillan, which draws on Verasight survey data. "The Trump Realignment: How Donald J. Trump Redefined the American Party System" examines how the Republican coalition changed under Donald Trump, including the party's relationship with corporate America. Chapter 6, "Corporate America and the GOP: How the Republican Party Fell Out of Love with Big Business," draws on a June 2024 Verasight poll measuring how Americans view companies described as "woke." Read the book: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15…

Congratulations to @itserinfitz and @profgoose on a new article in the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, published with Verasight survey data. "Who considers, who owns? Multi-study evidence on the behavioral process of cryptocurrency adoption in the United States" studies the step most research on cryptocurrency overlooks, the point where someone would consider owning it but does not yet. Across three nationally representative samples of US adults, roughly one in five respondents do not own cryptocurrency but would consider owning it. Conservative political ideology and technological optimism related more strongly to considering, while stock ownership and disruptive orientations related more strongly to owning. Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser…

Thanks to @gelliottmorris for including Verasight research in his new article "All polls are models now." "The Verasight crew points to a 2025 analysis by @pete_enns, Amelia Goranson, Jake Rothschild, and Gretchen Streett which found that high-quality non-probability firms actually did better than probability firms in the 2024 presidential election." Read the analysis: medium.com/3streams/the-futu… "In this report for Verasight, @pete_enns and Joey Marshall argue that [the probability/non-probability] distinction can no longer serve as the heuristic for whether a survey is any good." Read the report: verasight.io/reports/probabi… Read Elliott's article: gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09…

Congratulations to Julia Fine, @JoshEttinger, Teresa Myers, Yuan Yue, Lisa Patel, John Kotcher, and Edward Maibach on a new article in Environmental Research: Health, published with Verasight survey data. "Optimizing health professionals’ climate advocacy messages" tests which message frames work best when health professionals communicate about climate change and health. In a 2 × 2 factorial experiment plus a no message control group, the authors tested four versions of a brief fictitious yet realistic news article to answer two questions with regard to six possible communication outcomes (e.g. support for fossil fuels, support for renewable energy, trust in health professionals as sources of climate change information): (1) Are do-more-good frames (about the need to use more renewable energy) or do-less-bad frames (about the need to phase out fossil fuels) more effective, and (2) Are gain frames (about health benefits) or loss frames (about health harms) more effective? In addition, they surveyed a cohort of health professionals who advocate for climate action to test their willingness to use each of these message frames. The authors found that reading any of the four versions of the news article led to a small increase in trust in health professionals as a source of information on climate change relative to the control group, and the stop/loss and start/gain framed articles led to a small decrease in participants’ support for fossil fuels. The health professionals surveyed had a strong preference for gain-framed messages; however, many also mentioned a sense of duty to warn audiences of the health harms of climate change. Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ae…

Congratulations to Brian Hicks, Amanda Price, @blairjwhitt, Paula Goldman, and Mark Ilgen on a new article in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, published with Verasight survey data. "Links between cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome symptoms and drug use, mental health problems, antisocial behavior, and personality in a national survey of adults in the United States" examines how adults reporting symptoms of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome differ from other adults who use cannabis. Across the National Firearms, Alcohol, Cannabis, and Suicide survey of 7,034 US adults, those reporting symptoms of the syndrome reported the highest rates and greatest variety of drug use among people who use cannabis, along with more depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances, and chronic pain than those who used cannabis daily without those symptoms. Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep…

That's a wrap on APSA 2026 for the Verasight team! Thanks to all the researchers and Verasight clients who made it an amazing week. See you next year!

Today is the LAST DAY to submit your free survey question at APSA. Meet the Verasight team at Booth 417 to submit your question on a nationally representative survey of 1,000 U.S. adults. All question submitters will receive the individual-level data for all questions, demographic and political variables, survey weights, a detailed methodological report, and Verasight's dynamic topline and crosstab report. See you soon!

"Getting to see clients who spent years preparing the research, writing the questionnaire, building the study design, and finally getting to see the results is very satisfying for me and for the whole team..." Verasight co-founder and CEO Ben Leff on why APSA is important to Verasight, and why we love seeing clients present research published with Verasight data. Visit us at Booth 417 today to submit a free survey question.